Sen. Chris Head

Co-sponsor HB 1233

Passed · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Apprentice agreements; ratio of apprentices to journeymen.

Passed Mar 6, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HJ 59

In committee · Virginia House · Lead sponsor

Celebrate Transportation Day; designating as Thursday before Memorial Day in 2019.

In committee Mar 5, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor HJ 142

In committee · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Recovery Sunday; designating as third Sunday of September 2018, and each succeeding year thereafter.

In committee Mar 5, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HB 842

Signed into law · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Controlled paraphernalia; possession or distribution, hypodermic needles and syringes, naloxone.

Provides that a person who is authorized by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to train individuals on the administration of naloxone for use in opioid overdose reversal and who is acting on behalf of an organization that provides services to individuals at risk of experiencing an opioid overdose or training in the administration of naloxone for overdose reversal and that has obtained a controlled substances registration from the Board of Pharmacy may dispense or distribute hypodermic needles and syringes in conjunction with such dispensing of naloxone and that a person to whom naloxone has been distributed by such individual may possess hypodermic needles and syringes in conjunction with such possession of naloxone. The bill also allows the dispensing or distributing of hypodermic needles and syringes by persons authorized to dispense naloxone. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Signed into law Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor HR 97

Introduced · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Commending Dwayne Yancey.

Introduced Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HB 915

Signed into law · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Military medical personnel program; personnel may practice under supervision of physician, etc.

Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a program in which military medical personnel may practice and perform certain delegated acts that constitute the practice of medicine or nursing under the supervision of a licensed physician or podiatrist or the chief medical officer of an organization participating in such program, or his designee who is licensed by the Board of Medicine and supervising within his scope of practice. The bill allows the chief medical officer of an organization participating in such program to, in consultation with the chief nursing officer of such organization, designate a registered nurse licensed by the Board of Nursing or practicing with a multistate licensure privilege to supervise military personnel participating in such program while engaged in the practice of nursing. This bill is identical to

Signed into law Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SB 511

Passed · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Optometry; scope of practice.

Provides that the practice of optometry includes the evaluation, examination, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormal or diseased conditions of the human eye and its adnexa by the use of medically recognized and appropriate devices, procedures, or technologies but that it does not include treatment through surgery, including laser surgery, other invasive modalities, or the use of injections, except for certain injections by TPA-certified optometrists and for the treatment of emergency cases of anaphylactic shock with intramuscular epinephrine. The bill authorizes a TPA-certified optometrist to administer therapeutic pharmaceutical agents by injection for the treatment of chalazia by means of an injection of a steroid included in Schedule VI controlled substances, provided that the optometrist provides written evidence that he has completed certain training requirements to the Board of Optometry.

Passed Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 279

Introduced · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of the Honorable Lacey E. Putney.

Introduced Mar 1, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 309

Introduced · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen III.

Introduced Mar 1, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 306

Introduced · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Commending the Honorable William J. Howell.

Introduced Feb 26, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track